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Another ANZAC Day and another day to remember the sacrifices made by Australian and New Zealand forces. Those who serve in battle never get off lightly, even if they manage to survive seemingly unscathed.
This year I remember some family members – Claude and Tim from Crows Nest, [...]
Recently I visited the site in Flanders where John McCrae wrote the famouns pomen In Flanders Fields. It is at the Essex Farm Aid Station only a few kilometres from Ieper (aka Ypres).
I visited on a cold, muddy and miserable day. The concrete bunker where [...]
I have taken some time out from business meetings in Europe to make something of a personal pilgrimage in the steps of my ANZAC ancestors.
It has been a very moving and very sombre experience. To see the tiny spaces of land fought over in World War 1 that resulted [...]
Since I am traveling around there is not always the time or the internet access to blog as often as I would like. Instead I’m sharing links to resources that are guiding my journey via Pearltrees:
On Passing the New Menin Gate
by Siegfried Sassoon
Who will remember, passing through this Gate,
The unheroic Dead who fed the guns?
Who shall absolve the foulness of their fate,—
Those doomed, conscripted, unvictorious ones?
Crudely renewed, the Salient holds its own.
Paid are [...]
A good example of the fellow feeling across the Tasman for ANZAC day and all that it means is the speech by the New Zealand Governor-General, Dame Silvia Cartwright, at the 2004 ANZAC Day Dawn Service:
“The presence of so many children and young men and women at ANZAC ceremonies [...]
It seems appropriate this ANZAC Day to share a good online resource.
Thus I commend to people the Australian National Archives site called Mapping our ANZACS.
It provides a way to browse 375,971 records of service in the Australian Army during World War I according to [...]
In Australia we commemorate our veterans with The Ode. It comes from a poem by Laurence Binyon called For The Fallen, and seems appropriate today:
They shall grow not old,
As we that are left grow old,
Age shall not weary them,
Nor the years [...]
They shall grow not old,
As we that are left grow old,
Age shall not weary them,
Nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun,
And in the morning
We will remember them.
– Laurence Binyon
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